Narrative & Medicine: (Con)texts and practices across disciplines.
Speakers.
Keynote speakers:
JOÃO LOBO ANTUNES
João Lobo Antunes graduated in Medicine at the University of Lisbon 1967. Between 1971 and 1984 he worked in New York, at the Columbia University. He is a Full Professor of Neurosurgery at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon since 1984. He is also the author of many scientifical papers and books in the field of Neurosciences, being now the appointed Chairman of the Institute of Molecular Medicine. He published several essay books: Sobre a Mão e Outros Ensaios (2008), O Eco Silencioso (2008), Inquietação Interminável (2010), and one biography, Egas Moniz (2010). +info
RITA CHARON
Rita Charon is a general internist and literary scholar at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA. She has a small general practice in a poor immigrant neighborhood of Manhattan. She teaches medical students about the language of medicine, how to build helpful relationships with patients, and how to use the imagination in the care of the sick. By creating the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia in 2000, Dr. Charon brought together scholars from the humanities and social sciences with doctors, nurses, social workers, psychoanalysts to think, together, about how the use of stories improves health care. +info
MARIE-FRANCE MAMZER
PhD in Medical and Biological Ethics at the Univ. Paris-Descartes. She integrated the ethical commission of the Société Francophone de Transplantation, and since 2013 is the president of the ethical commission of the Société de Néphrologie. She is also the president of the CPP Ile de France 2, and a teacher at the Univ. Paris-Descartes since 2008. Most recently, she was appointed responsible for the
Unité Fonctionnelle d'Ethique et de Médecine légale (Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades).
BRIAN HURWITZ
Brian Hurwitz is a medical practitioner and Director of the Centre for Humanities and Health, at King’s College London. His research interests encompass narrative and clinical medicine studies, ethics, law, and the dialogue between the several disciplines of the arts, the humanities and medicine. He has authored several essays on narrative and clinical practice issues, and published the books: Narrative-Based Medicine: Dialogue and Discourse in Clinical Practice (1998), Narrative Research in Health and Illness (2004) and Health Care Errors and Patient Safety (2009). +info
N&M Project research team:
ISABEL FERNANDES
Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes is a Full Professor at the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon. She created and coordinates since 2009 the first international and interdisciplinary Programme on Narrative and Medicine in Portugal. She has published extensively in the fields of her expertise, namely, English Literature, Narratology, Inter-art Studies and, more recently, Narrative Medicine. Among her recent publications are: Critical Dialogues: Slow Readings of English Literary Texts (2011), and Creative Dialogues: Narrative and Medicine (2015). +info
ADELINO CARDOSO
Adelino Cardoso received a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Lisbon and is currently an Assistant Researcher of the Centre for the History of Culture in the Human Sciences Faculty of the New University of Lisbon. He is the author of, among other books, Vida e Percepção de Si (2008). He also coordinates a project funded and approved by the FCT as ‘excellent’, entitled: “The view of nature in the medico-philosophical thought at the transition from the 17th to the 18th Century” (2010). +info
ALDA MARIA CORREIA
Alda Correia is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she teaches General and Comparative Literature, Literature and the Other Arts, History of Translation, Critical Readings. She is a full member of ULICES and a collaborator at the Centre of Studies on Literary Imaginary in New University.
Her research topics include: short fiction history and theory, narratology, Comparative Literature, regionalist literature. +info
ANTÓNIO BARBOSA
Graduated in Medicine (FMUL), Anthropology (ISCSP-UTL) and Sociology (ISCTE). He received a Master’s degree, a PhD and is a Senior Lecturer (abilitation) (FMUL) in Psychiatry, holding also an European Master Degree in Bioethics.. He is a Graduate Hospital Assistant in the Psychiatric Service of the Santa Maria Hospital (Lisbon) and co-coordinator of its Centre for Liaison Psychiatry. He is also an Invited Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, where he heads the Centre for Bioethics and coordinates the Palliative Care unit. +info
CECILIA BEECHER MARTINS
English Language Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon and Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Novas Profissões, Lisbon. She is also a member of the American Studies Researcher Group at ULICES (University of Lisbon Center for English Studies) and involved in the Narrative and Medicine Research Project there. Her main research interests are film studies, psychoanalytical literary & film criticism and narrative medicine. She has written and published many articles on the relationship between creative writing, free associative film and literary criticism and mental health. +info
DIANA V. ALMEIDA
Invited Assistant Professor at FLUL, where she teaches US Literature (1900-1945), North American Art, Visual Culture, and Creative Writing. She developed a transdisciplinary post-doctoral project in Gender Studies connecting poetry and photography, funded by FCT. Integrated in this research framework, she implements a creative writing project at the Museum Collection Berardo. She is a full member of ULICES (University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies), and edited Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity (Peter Lang, 2013). +info
GÉRARD DANOU
Gérard Danou is presently an Associate Researcher in Literature at the Paris Diderot University. He received a PhD in Letters from the Paris VII University with a thesis entitled Le corps souffrant : littérature et médecine (1992). Recently, he was the editor of Peser les mots ; actes du colloque littératures et médecine (2007). +info
JOÃO ALMEIDA FLOR
João Almeida Flor is a retired Full Professor and an expert in English Language and Literature, having developed his scientific activities in Comparative Literature, Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Relations and Reception and Literary Translation Studies. He is a full member of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, in the Reception Studies and Descriptive Studies in Translation Research Group. In his vast published work stand out the volume T.S.Eliot: Prufrock e outras Observações (2005), and the editorial coordination of Shakespeare Entre Nós (2009). +info
MANUEL SILVÉRIO MARQUES
A retired clinical haematologist. He holds a PhD in Philosophy of Medicine, from the University of Lisbon and is currently a researcher at the Centre for Philosophy, UL. He was an invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, and at the University of Beira Interior, where he taught Medical Art, History, and Philosophy of Medicine. He currently develops a Project (funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) devoted to the edition of the medical works of Dr. José Pinto de Azeredo (Rio, 1764-Lisboa, 1810). +info
MARIA ANTÓNIA REBELO BOTELHO
Obtained a PhD in Philosophy, specialized in Contemporary Philosophy, at the New University of Lisbon. She is the coordinator of the Research and Development in Nursing Unit (UI&DE) since 2007, and a Full Professor at ESEL (Escola Superior de Enfermagem) since 2010. In 2007 she took direction of the Pensar Enfermagem magazine. Her scientific activity is focused on Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Ethics, Bioethics and Professional Deontology and Advanced Research in Nursing. +info
MARIA DE JESUS CABRAL
Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, where she teaches French Literature (19th and 20th centuries), French Language and Translation. She received her PhD in 2005 at the Catholic University of Portugal, where she also taught (1994/2008), with a thesis on symbolist theatre from Mallarmé to Maeterlinck. She is a Full Member of the CLP (Centre for Portuguese Literature) at FLUC, in the research group “Poéticas”, responsible for the line of research in Literary Reading, and co-responsible for the research line in “Poethics of Translation". +info
MARIJKE BOUCHERIE
Belgian and Portuguese. Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon. Researcher at Ulices (Group 4). Research topics: The Literature of Nonsense and the communicative potentialities inherent in language form; Canadian Literature. Some Publications: “Nonsense and Other Senses”, in Tarantino, Elizabetta (ed.), Nonsense and other Senses. Regulated Absurdity in Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). Ch. XIII, pp. 259-274.; ‘Peter Ibbetson’ or the Limbo of Memory”. Revista Anglo-Saxónica, Série II. Nº 18, 2003, 213-230. +info
NUNO PROENÇA
Received a PhD in Philosophy and Social Sciences from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris. He developed his post-doctorate research at the Centre for the History of Culture of the New University of Lisbon, and was a grant holder of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal). His working areas concern the relationship between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, namely in the fields of affectivity and emotions, the body and the unconscious, imagination and memory, but also, language, identity and narrative. +info
TERESA CASAL
Assistant Professor in English at the University of Lisbon and a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES), where she coordinates research group 4, dedicated to Other English-speaking Literatures and Cultures. Her research interests include contemporary Irish literature and medical humanities, with a focus on the interplay between fiction and non-fiction, and on the uses of narrative as a form of knowledge. Her contribution to the ULICES-based project ‘Narrative & Medicine: (Con)texts and practices across disciplines’ involves the study of illness and medical narratives. +info
Speakers from partner institutions:
FABIANA B. CARELLI
PhD in Literary Studies (Literary Theory and Comparative Literature) in the Univ. of São Paulo (2003), Post-doctoral degree in the Univ. of Minnesota (2010) and graduation in public administration in the Fundação Getúlio Vargas - SP (1989). She is a Professor in the Univ. of São Paulo, and is an experienced researcher in the fields of Comparative Studies in Portuguese, developing research in the following areas: Comparative Studies in Portuguese, African Literatures in Portuguese and Brasilian and Portuguese Literature. Her work focuses on correlations between Literature and other forms of knowledge (especially Literature and Medicine).
ANTONIO PITHON CYRINO
Graduated in Medicine at the Fac. of Medicine of Jundiaí. Master's degree and PhD in Medicine (Preventive Medicine) at the Univ. of São Paulo (USP). Editor of the Interface: Comunicação, Saúde, Educação journal, and Assistant Professor at the Univ. Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Unesp). He is an experienced researcher in Collective Health, focusing on Education and Communication in Health. His main research topics include: communication and health; education in health; community learning; collective health; primary health care; and health administration and planning. He is the author of Entre a ciência e a experiência (2009), published by Editora Unesp.
ELIANA GOLDFARB CYRINO
Master's degree in Education for Healthcare Professionals at the University of Illinois, EUA (2000). PhD in Pediatrics at the FMB, UNESP, em 2002. She is a teacher of Public Health at the FMB since 2013, where she participated in the post-grade programme in Collective Health.Research fields: education and health, medical education, child health, school health, training of healthcare professionals and primary care. From 2013-14, she was a Coordinator at the Dep. for Management and Education in Health at the Secretaria de Gestão e da Educação na Saúde (SGTES), Ministry of Health (MS) of Brazil. Since May 2014, she was appointed as Programme Director at the SGTES, MS.
DANTE GALLIAN
PhD in Social History at the Univ. of São Paulo (1997), and post-doc at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris, France (2007). Since 2005, he participates as a teacher and a visiting scholar at the Centre de Recherches Historiques da École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris, France, and, since 2011, as a visiting researcher at the Center of Humanities and Health do King's College London, UK. His lines of research include: Humanities and Health, Oral History and Narratives in Healthcare, Spirituality and healthcare. He is a researcher at FAPESP, CNPq and King's College, London.
